cycling, we have an update to our top story. 2,000 u.s. marines are on alert ahead of tomorrow s senate report about torture and interrogation. for months the pentagon has been preparing for potential threats against u.s. embassies or bases around the persian gulf and the mediterranean. the white house says this elevated alert status is simply out of an abundance of caution. now to another developing story. we ve talked about tension between police and communities, deep racial divisions and an electorate that seems impatient with the president s attempt at national reconciliation. we can also recognize those dynamics and we know they re not new. that was the scene facing president nixon when he tapped a liberal to lead his urban policy. patrick moynahan was known as an independent thinker, an architect of the liberal war on poverty but conservative leanings on welfare and on pushing income over benefits. famously telling bureaucrats what the poor need most is money. moynahan advised ni
policy during crisis during american cities. they reformed welfare through the family assistance plan and he famous an approach that continues to be debated in conservative circles today. moynahan is a diplomat in india and in the u.s. supreme court for over two decades. steven hess was moynahan s assistant. good day to you. good day to you, too. it s exciting to have someone who is right there, living this history so you know what happened. talk to us about that famous advice and that period moynahan said to nixon, there are concrete things can you do for black america, for the cities but we also need to just talk less about racial strife. yeah. it was misinterpreted. the press had a good time with those two words, deny and
neglect, applying he wanted an end to more useful governmental programs. it was really quite the contrary. he wanted to lower our voices and continue in a much more positive way toward that. anyway, it got him in a little trouble, but, frankly, by that time he was in pretty good shape. he had gotten the president to support something called the family assistance plan. that was the most aggressive piece of legislation since the new deal. pretty remarkable for our conservative president, who actually opposed it when he ran for office. this is a story about how it came about. i was in the base west basement of the white house next to pat moynahan, and i watched his operations, his maneuver, his humor and success. how did that effort at welfare reform come about? i ve got a quote here from president nixon in proposing this plan. he says, what i m proposing is that the federal government build a foundation under the income of every american family
stewardship as secretary of state there isn t a world view. there is no idea. there is no achievement. there is nothing real here which is why the book, apparently, i haven t read it personally has nothing in it. thanks for that. that s the review by charles krauthammer. patrick moynahan said you have read that book yes, but not personally. things that matter. all right. we ll leave it there that s it for the panel. but stay tuned for proof that a lot can can happen in the blink of an identify. eye. [ male announcer ] hands were made for playing.
the benghazi demonstration, they lied about the irs saying rogue agents in cincinnati. turns out those instructions were coming from washington. and we obviously were lied about like your plan, keep your plan, you will save $2500 a year for your family. it is the first demagogery to do attacks on the press. i would suggest that president obama go back to the speeches given by president kennedy where he was attacked by elements of the press, where he said we need to stand up for the press in the country even though they re attacking me and attacking my presidency. it is distasteful. it is wrong, stupid and not fruitful. we did learn later they hid several elements of his life. certainly. this goes back to patrick moynahan, talking about life in the soviet union, the difference is when life happens you read